Hermann Hesse
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born
June 02, 1877
died
August 09, 1962
gender
male
place of birth
Calw, Germany
genre
Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Romance
about this author
Hermann Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. In 1946, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game (also known as Magister Ludi) which explore an individual's search for spirituality outside society.
Hesse was born in the Black Forest town of Calw in Württemberg, Germany to a Christian missionary family. Both of his parents served with a Basel Mission to India, where Hesse's mother Marie Gundert was born in 1842. Hesse's father, Johannes Hesse, was born in 1847 in Estonia, the son of a doctor. The Hesse family had lived in Calw since 1873, where they operated a missionary publishing house under the direction of Hesse's grandfather, Herma...more
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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.92 — 26,018 ratings — published 1922 183 editions |
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Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.95 — 5,891 ratings — published 1927 96 editions |
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Demian by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.99 — 4,279 ratings — published 1919 65 editions |
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Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse avg rating 4.08 — 2,796 ratings — published 1930 58 editions |
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The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse avg rating 4.07 — 2,282 ratings — published 1943 46 editions |
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Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.70 — 1,112 ratings — published 1967 35 editions |
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The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.68 — 1,072 ratings — published 1932 19 editions |
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The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.97 — 506 ratings — published 1982 10 editions |
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Gertrude: A Novel by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.66 — 456 ratings — published 1955 16 editions |
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Peter Camenzind: A Novel by Hermann Hesse avg rating 3.67 — 410 ratings — published 1968 27 editions |
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
— Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity."
— Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
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"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."
— Hermann Hesse
— Hermann Hesse
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